REA Auction T206 Plank Grades (?)

[M's_Fan]

I agree that eye appeal should be a part of the grade scale. I know its subjective but you could break it down by category (colors, image quality, etc) that would help. People say its subjective and it is, but in most situations eye appeal is one of the most obvious things about a card. It's like what a judge once said about pornography- "I know it when I see it."

Originally Posted by wonkaticket

In fact I think auction houses need to a better job calling out collections that have amazing eye appeal.

John

In my opinion, sellers and auction houses ALWAYS think there cards have tremendous eye appeal. In fact I've noticed that when a seller starts blabbing about eye appeal, the card in fact does not have eye appeal, and the seller is trying to hype up the card. So I usually shrug off flowery descriptions of cards.

However, what about sellers pointing out that the grade of the card they are selling actually isn't deserved? I've actually only seen this once, in the recent REA, a very nice Ruth Goudey #144 was described by REA as being overgraded! I couldn't believe the honesty, a refreshing thing in this hobby!

REA: We grade this card more conservatively than PSA at approximately Vg-Ex, due to the approximately 80/20 left-to-right centering, a little too much corner wear, a small surface indentation above Ruth's right shoulder, and a light stain on the left border.